SATELLITES

LES-1 — Lincoln Experimental Satellite One — failed its relay mission. Sixty years on, it remains in orbit.

This book is narrated by it.

Part orbital chronicle, part historical account, part dry-eyed observation of humanity, SATELLITES crosses the history of the space age: Sputnik, Laika, Vanguard 1, the race to the Moon, the first debris, Starlink.

From two thousand eight hundred kilometres up, a thirty-one-kilogram object watches what humans have sent into the sky, what they have left there, and what it reveals about them.

Grounded in real events, SATELLITES forges a singular voice: that of a genuine satellite whose mission failed, long forgotten, and still up there.